In this series, Tuoi Tre investigative journalists reported on prostitution in Chinese towns bordering Vietnam, on Vietnamese women being forced into the flesh market, on trafficking rings and others. Once housing many brick kilns, Xam Cao is now a cheap place for Vietnamese and Chinese traders to visit for sex.
We then promised to buy three sessions costing VND, in total upon which her sad and exhausted face suddenly turned bright. Whenever we asked, the girl replied in short, blunt answers. But in the end, we managed to learn that her name is Nga, from Nam Dinh Province in northern Vietnam.
Asked if she voluntarily came to China for this job, Nga replied she was tricked by a Hanoi man, adding that she spent one year being a hotel prostitute in Vietnam before becoming an unwanted prostitute and drifting here to work. She too was once tricked but later lived with a Chinese pimp and became a procuress herself. A girl stands by a brothel in bad condition in Dongxing town, Guangxi Province in China. Tuoi Tre. We continued to explore another place. Here in Dongxing town, most hotels have their own prostitutes.
Even one adjacent the restaurant we were having lunch had some 10 Vietnamese girls. Whenever we walked, women in skimpy clothes surrounded us. When the local guide stopped us at a place he knew, one Chinese woman whisked us in. There, behind a living room only small enough to contain a table and several chairs are a series of compartments, some with the curtains draped over. The covered areas indicate they are occupied with clients. In Dongxing town, even female tram drivers are ready to recommend places for you to buy sex.
And when the indigenous supply is scanty, Vietnamese women fill in. Leaving the red light districts in Dongxing, we took a bus to Jiangping - another town of Guangxi Province. As they were hemmed in by six big men, we took a wild guess that they were prostitutes on the way to their clients or back to their brothel. Thu boasts clear, fair skin, sparkling eyes and a slender body.
